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Edward Caban, the first Latino police commissioner in New York, grew up in the Bronx. Edward Caban, an officer of Puerto Rican descent who joined the department in 1991, has been named its 47th commissioner. Mayor Eric Adams has championed his rise. Growing up in the South Bronx in the 1960s, Joseph Ayala usually saw Irish American police officers patrolling his neighborhood, where most

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) recently urged Hispanic voters in Florida to reject Governor Ron DeSantis and not give him their votes in the 2024 US election in light of his immigration policies. López Obrador accused DeSantis of persecuting migrants and lacking respect for them. “I hope the Hispanics of Florida will wake up and not give him a single vote, that they will

Romeo Ortiz, a professional lifeguard, was the first rescuer to treat the woman who was bitten by a shark Monday in Rockaway Beach, Queens (NYC). It was the first case of a shark attack on a bather in New York City in nearly 70 years. But the resourceful Hispanic lifeguard of the Parks Department stated in an interview with the Daily News that nothing, not even that historic ordeal, could keep

TRENTON – An investigation by the state Division on Civil Rights corroborated a judge’s claim that Hispanics faced discrimination in Millville’s municipal court, the agency says in a lawsuit against the city. “Millville has unlawfully discriminated against litigants on the basis of national origin,” asserts the suit, which seeks unspecified damages for victims of the alleged bias. It contends